{"id":2216,"date":"2013-08-12T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2013-08-12T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T23:38:52","slug":"mistletoe-and-mayhem-by-kate-kingsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/mistletoe-and-mayhem-by-kate-kingsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistletoe and Mayhem by Kate Kingsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we go to the library, I look for a mystery book. I picked up Mistletoe and Mayhem because the setting is the 1800s in the UK. The cover drew my attention; it says, &#8220;Never Before Published!&#8221; Aren&#8217;t most books never before published? Is it a good thing to be never before published?<\/p>\n<p>The book had a couple of romantic subplots, the murders were unexpected, the resolution was intriguing, but the motive for the murders was lacking. A good mystery has to make sense, the crimes cannot be random, and the character must be consistent. I give it 2.5 stars for entertainment, 1.5 stars for mystery. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll read this author again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we go to the library, I look for a mystery book. I picked up Mistletoe and Mayhem because the setting is the 1800s in the UK. The cover drew my attention; it says, &#8220;Never Before Published!&#8221; Aren&#8217;t most books never before published? Is it a good thing to be never before published? The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}